That's not because she's his sister, though. That's because she's a giant asshole.Kaelik wrote:In the Third Book Jamie stops being a bad guy and starts being someone you like directly in proportion to the amount you see him stop being sexually attracted to his sister.
If Cersei were less of an insane bitch the whole relationship would be a romantic Lancelot-Guinevere style forbidden true love thing. Heck, it's impossible to even feel bad about the adultery thing given that Robert is a raging abusive alcoholic berk.
Actually, I'm pretty sure that the major thesis of A Song of Ice and Fire is that the Middle Ages were horrible and the nobility are all horrible people.
Deleterious recessive mutations. A regressive gene has a much higher chance of being passed on to a child if both parents have it instead of just one. And the child can only inherit the two genes necessary to express the trait if both parents have it.I never saw the big deal with incest to be honest. If you've got two consenting adults, why should anyone care? I think we'd all be better off as a species if we'd stop trying to define what kinds of sex are okay and which ones aren't. I mean sure, I find the thought of two gay dudes banging each other to be disgusting, but if that's what they want to do behind closed doors, I don't see any reason to actively demonize them for it.
If the parents are related, they have a much higher chance of possessing matching recessive genes.
Multi-generational inbreeding is known to allow some rather nasty genetic diseases to thrive. Outbreeding makes them much less likely, statistically.
But a single generation of inbreeding isn't that dangerous, statistically. And that danger can be mitigated by genetic screening.
If you cant say fuck then you can't say fuck the government.Whipstitch wrote:Basically, if you can't handle being called a pervert from time to time then it's probably just best to stay out of the shock art game.
Ultimately shock art is political, or at least it should be. Ultimately the point isn't that things aren't offensive, but that they shouldn't be offensive. Getting pissed off at being called a pervert is part and parcel to that, as it is the ones who are offended who are in the wrong.
(There is, of course, the other side of the shock art coin, showing things that the artist believes are offensive and using them to set the audience against a target, but that's not relevant to the discussion as it has evolved.)